Ok this post is about club regripping which most of the time is a basic activity for any pga trained pro but the "service" I experianced recently getting a set of irons regripped from my local club is unbelievable.I purchased a set of grips off ebay and contacted my local club to have them regripped as the club where I'm a member doesent have a workshop facility.A price was agreed for the regripping and I duly dropped my irons off last Friday morning and as instructed picked them up at after lunch.Ive had a lot of clubs regripped in 30 yrs of golf and just put them in my car and took them home, on closer inspection when I got home I could see the grips were uneven and it was quite clear they had used the thinner grip tape and wrapped the shaft but with spaces inbetween wrapping and because the grips are thin made them uneven.I took the irons back to the club and then was told by the club pro that "thats the way they apply the tape" when I pointed out that the grips are thin and it simply needs the tapeing without gaps he said all he would do is remove the grips and give the lot back to me which I agreed to as I wanted the job done correctly, why he just couldnt apply the tape correctly I dont know.The same day I spoke with another club pro who agreed with me that all that needing doing was the tape wrapped correctly and the grips applied simple as that.As couldnt find anybody to regrip the clubs that day (I was playing the following day) I phoned the pro who was removing the grips and explained I was playing golf the following day and really needed the irons regripping so could he just apply the tape correctly and apply the grips.He then went on to "advise" me that the best way to solve this would be to apply cloth tape first to the shaft and then the wrapped tape he said this would correctly thicken out the grips and they would be fine so as I had golf booked the next day and he's the pro I agreed for him to do it.I went to pick the irons up the following day in the morning and the pro said unfortuantly they had come out 'worse than before" and the problems with the thin grips!!!, Unimpressed as you could imagine and thinking he's not going to get this right I collected the clubs and left.
I took the clubs home and as the glueing agent they applied to hold the grips on hadnt set yet I tried to make the grips a better shape which I was partially successfull with.I really didnt want to incure the cost to have them regripped again so after cleaning with white spirit the glueing agent off the shaft and heads of some of the irons
decided just to live with them and left them out of my golf bag for the grips to dry.The following day (Saturday) they still werent dry and I couldnt play golf with them,ive never experianced before regripping taking this long to dry and can only think that too much glueing agent must have soaked the cloth tape and need further drying out so left them longer to dry out. They seemed to have dried out ok by Sunday evening so I put them back into my golf bag.This morning I went to the local range and when I took the irons out of the bag was horrified to see that that glueing agent liquid was leaking out of the small hole in the end of the grips on some if the irons and on inspecting the bag noticed it spilled into the base of the bag!!
Ive supported my local golf club giving them work, let a pga trained pro regripp my clubs and had all this hassle with the most basic of jobs, in 30 yrs of golf ive never experianced anything like this when it comes to club work, it really defies belief that they couldn't fathom that by wrapping the shaft with the tape correctly originally was all was needed, unbelievable........
I took the clubs home and as the glueing agent they applied to hold the grips on hadnt set yet I tried to make the grips a better shape which I was partially successfull with.I really didnt want to incure the cost to have them regripped again so after cleaning with white spirit the glueing agent off the shaft and heads of some of the irons
decided just to live with them and left them out of my golf bag for the grips to dry.The following day (Saturday) they still werent dry and I couldnt play golf with them,ive never experianced before regripping taking this long to dry and can only think that too much glueing agent must have soaked the cloth tape and need further drying out so left them longer to dry out. They seemed to have dried out ok by Sunday evening so I put them back into my golf bag.This morning I went to the local range and when I took the irons out of the bag was horrified to see that that glueing agent liquid was leaking out of the small hole in the end of the grips on some if the irons and on inspecting the bag noticed it spilled into the base of the bag!!Ive supported my local golf club giving them work, let a pga trained pro regripp my clubs and had all this hassle with the most basic of jobs, in 30 yrs of golf ive never experianced anything like this when it comes to club work, it really defies belief that they couldn't fathom that by wrapping the shaft with the tape correctly originally was all was needed, unbelievable........
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